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...Winlock's career the first stage in the Observatory's development was completed. The second stage first stage in the Observatory's development was completed. The second stage which lasted up until the age or Shapley, was a time of valuable phometric and photographic studies, extending from...
...separate chapter in the annals of the institution is the monumental work done by Miss Annle J. Cannon in compiling the Henry Draper Catalogue. She worked through the terms of both Pickering and Shapley. Her classification of all the stars in the sky down to the eighth magnitude was one of the largest investigations ever conducted in this or any other observatory...
After looking at the eight Observatories and the amount of published material accumulated during his reign, Shapley can review the work with pride. Following his many years of acting as administrator, of worrying about endowments and all types of equipment, the 66 year old professor is about to become a bona fide classroom educator...
During the last thirty odd years under Shapley's administration, the Observatory has made its greatest strides forward. It was he who established the Agassiz Station at Harvard, the transfer of the southern station from Peru to South Africa, and with the collaboration of Menzel, the installation at Climax, Colorado. The new headquarters building in Cambridge was built under his direction, and provides fireproof housing for the nearly half million plates which contain Harvard's history of the sky for the past sixty years...
...Shapley's Contributions...